The internet is a platform where anything under the sun can be learnt about in a single click. This is beneficial for sure, but can also be misused by certain people. It’s imperative for parents to exercise proper control over their child’s use of the...
At some point of time in life we have all heard the saying “Beauty is only skin deep”. If we reflect on this old saying, we would realise how narrow a definition beauty holds according to this quote. The old dictionaries around the world have...
Written by: Mathew Eliatel, Middle & Senior School English Teacher & TOK Coordinator, SNIS “To speak a language is to take on a world, a culture.” ― Frantz Fanon India. An ancient land whose multicultural, multi-ethnic, multi-linguistic fabric has been woven through centuries of contact with outsiders - both...
“Build a strong base. The journey to peaks of excellence requires a strong base camp.” – C.N.R. Rao, Head of the Scientific Advisory Council to the Prime Minister, India Indians have made revolutionary contributions to the fields of science, mathematics and engineering from times immemorial. A...
Written by – Ms.Rajeswari Vidyashankar “The youth of today are the leaders of tomorrow” quotes South-African anti-apartheid revolutionary political leader and former president Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela, who from a very young age fought for the rights of black people in South Africa. The millennium youth, unlike...
“Tomorrow is the first blank page of 365 page book, write a good one” A new year is a great time for great new beginnings. New Year resolutions are not a modern era invention; in fact they date back to almost 4000 years. The Babylonians were...
In this day and age, when children are seen spending most of their time inside homes, on their couch, either browsing the internet or playing video games, the importance of heading out and spending more time with nature cannot be stressed enough. Research says that...
Pranava Shrisai Gande Grade 9 student, SNIS “To deny people their human rights is to challenge their very humanity.” - Nelson Mandela We are human. We can imagine, perceive and rationalize. Because of this, we all deserve, and are expected to live by a fundamental, sacrosanct code of rules...
When we look into the eyes of young children, we see a light, a sparkle. A survey of more than fifty thousand children across various countries around the globe reveals that children tend to be happy regardless of the context of their lives. From Ethiopia to...
Bethenny Frankel, an American television personality, author and entrepreneur, once said “Your diet is a bank account. Good food choices are good investments”. So what is a diet? Diet, is defined as the kinds of food that a person, animal, or community habitually eats. On the...
